5 ideas for getting over advancement fear | How to keep colleagues from diminishing your effectiveness at work | What gets an audience to care about your speech?
5 ideas for getting over advancement fear With a promotion comes new demands, and if that's a cause for worry, identify your fear and plan how to overcome it, writes leadership coach Karin Hurt. Allow your strengths to shape the new role and tap professional peers for help when navigating new responsibilities. Let's Grow Leaders (7/22)How to keep colleagues from diminishing your effectiveness at work Coworkers can hurt your team's productivity and even cause missed deadlines through their mistakes, such as focusing on the wrong priorities, says Justin Hale, co-creator of David Allen's Getting Things Done training and coaching system. He offers these tips to get the team aligned and focused on the same action items. Fast Company online (7/19)
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Making the Connection
What gets an audience to care about your speech? Audiences care more about your topic when you include a personal anecdote or two related to it and cite facts that support the legitimacy of your viewpoint, writes Matt Nagin. You're more likely to hold their attention and earn their respect with an honest approach versus citing a series of platitudes. Medium (tiered subscription model) (7/11)
Some companies are tracking employees through texts, collaboration software such as Slack, mobile phone use to assess productivity and how well they allocate resources. How organizations handle this data and disclosure are not just about what is legally permissible, but also "what you need to do to maintain trusting relationships with your employees," said Stacia Garr, co-founder of RedThread Research. The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model) (7/19)
Candidates should emphasize their pertinent skills and any transferable talents they may have when applying for a job they may not be fully qualified for, writes career counselor Kim Thompson. "You want to highlight related skills, achievements and responsibilities to reassure the employer you could do the job well," she notes. Houston Chronicle (tiered subscription model) (7/21)
Balancing Yourself
How to recognize, combat loneliness Most people have experienced loneliness whether they're by themselves or in a crowd, writes Suzanne Degges-White. She explains existential, emotional and social loneliness and the ways to combat these specific types of isolating feelings such as understanding "the fear and using it as a motivator to live more fully and more in the moment" and jumping into a new activity or group. Psychology Today (7/12)
The Water Cooler
2-year-old drove to Minn. county fair on toy tractor When parents Lynn and Kristopher Allen couldn't find their two-year-old son Kenneth, police quickly discovered the boy at the local county fair only two blocks away. Kenneth had driven himself to the celebration in Rush City, Minn. on a battery-operated toy tractor -- which his parents say he is grounded from riding for a week. Fox News (7/21)
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
